Private Property

The sign at the end of your driveway says Private Property in big red letters. The animals never read it. Bears, raccoons, wolves, wild boar, rats and vultures come up the driveway, across the lawn and through the yard, heading for your house. Set up yard defences beside their paths, upgrade them, and choose how each one specialises. Every animal has its own habits and its own weakness, and every yard asks for a different mix. Nobody gets hurt: animals whose nerve runs out simply turn tail and run home.

How to play

• Build: tap or click an open spot beside a path and pick a defence. On a touch screen, the first tap on a choice shows what it does and the second tap builds it.
• Upgrade: tap a defence to raise it to level 2 and 3, then pick one of its two specialisations. You can also change what it targets first, or sell it.
• Patience: each animal that reaches the house uses up some of your patience. Lose all 20 and the animals have moved in.
• Waves: the next wave comes on its own, or call it early for bonus cash.
• Powers: Firecrackers scare every animal in the blast and flush out sneaking Foxes; the Barricade holds a path shut for a few seconds.
• Stars: 3 stars for 18 or more patience left, 2 for 10 or more, 1 for any clear. Three stars open the Heroic challenge for a bonus star. Spend stars on permanent upgrades and refund them for free whenever you like.
• Daily Patrol: one new yard every day, the same for every player. Clear it on consecutive days to build a streak.
• The Long Haul: endless waves on any map you have cleared.

The animals

• Raccoons and Rats: the everyday raiders. Rats come in swarms.
• Vultures: glide straight over the yard, ignoring the paths.
• Armadillos: shrug off balls and balloons with their shells.
• Geese: too bold to care about horns and sprinklers.
• Foxes: sneak along unseen until a Floodlight or Firecrackers show them up.
• Wolves: howl to rally the animals around them.
• Wild Sows: their piglets scatter when they run off.
• Skunks: spray the defences they pass.
• Black Bears: huge, slow and very hard to put off.

The defences

• Ball Launcher: quick shots at one animal; hits flyers.
• Balloon Launcher: water balloons that soak every animal nearby on the ground.
• Lawn Sprinkler: slows every animal in range.
• Air Horn: a blast that startles one animal after another and ignores armor.
• Floodlight: shows up sneaking Foxes and makes nearby defences stronger.
• Pressure Washer: a jet that builds pressure the longer it holds one big animal.

Keys: arrow keys move the cursor, Enter opens the build menu, 1 to 6 build, U upgrade, T targeting, S sell (press twice), Space next wave, Q Firecrackers, W Barricade, F game speed, P or Esc pause, M sound.